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> most investment assets can be financially leveraged

Yes, but for most of them you need to convince someone else that giving you the money is a good idea.
20 million dollar super computer? So that's 500 h100s?

Wouldn't it be better to have Microsoft put some gpus on gov cloud?
A video I watched a while ago claimed that Talkomatic was the first one
"Enough" is a function of how much you have and how much you need. 25x annual spend is a common heuristic for the required net worth before you can safely retire. And the older you are, the less margin of safety you need. 4% of $1.3 million is $52k, which is enough to live quite comfortably in many places.
> Somewhat true but things are changing. While there are plenty of “luxury” Apple devices like Vision Pro or fully decked out MacBooks for web browsing we no longer live in a world where tech are just lifestyle gadgets.

I notice your use of the weasel word "just".

We undoubtedly live in a world where Apple products are sold as lifestyle gadgets. Arguably it's more true today than it ever was. It's also a world where Apple's range of Veblen goods managed to gain footing in social circles to an extent that we have kids being bullied for owning Android phones.

Apple's lifestyle angle is becoming specially relevant because they can no longer claim they sell high-end hardware, as the difference in specs between Apple's hardware and product ranges from other OEMs is no longer noticeable. Apple's laughable insistence on shipping laptops with 8GB of RAM is a good example.

> Even in the higher end products like the MacBooks you see a lot of professionals (engineers included) who choose it because of its price-performance-value, and who don’t give a shit about luxury.

I don't think so, and that contrasts with my personal experience. All my previous roles offered a mix of MacBooks and windows laptops, and MacBooks were opted by new arrivals because they were seen as perks and the particular choice of windows ones in comparison were not as impressive, even though they out-specced Apple's offering (mid-range HP and Dell). In fact in a recent employee's review their main feedback was that the MacBook pro line was under-specced because at best it shipped with only 16GB of RAM while the less impressive HP ones already came with 32GB. In previous years, they called for the replacement of the MacBook line due to the rate of keyboard malfunctions. Meaning, engineers were purposely picking the underperforming option for non-technical reasons.
Perhaps they should have gone for something more specific, like mod_jinja
I didn't realize you need the exact #'s to understand an argument. Now that I've provided NYC's, and Stockton's is 34 in 2019, does it make any difference? No.

Your conclusion is without any evidence and is in fact, wrong, based on the crime metrics we can easily compare.

It's quite uncanny that it's the people who most fear crime, think they're going to something like "stay the hell away from crime infested NYC" and proceed to move somewhere where they're more likely to be affected by crime.
These don’t sit on the edge of the internet , and typically are not called edge devices.

It’s usually a more powerful device such as a router or mini server between LAN and internet.
> Not sure why Bluesky isn't all over Hollywood and politics

Ugh, that would turn it into just another online cesspool.
I seem to remember one 132 wide, but since the resolution didn’t change (much?) it was near unreadable.
I'm 35 and DOS applications in Windows machines were a common sight in India. They gave way to GUIs that can cram so much data in a 1024*768 black and white screen that I hate most webapps running on my 5k perfect color accuracy screen and can be quickly navigated by a loud mechanical keyboard.
One of my happiest moments as a writer was discovering that my book is on torrents. With seeds!

And people liked it enough after pirating to come back, hit the buy button, and tell me there’s pirated versions out there. <3
A lot of this looks similar to what GraphQL with something like Apollo Federation gives you:

1. A contract-first language where all of your queries (reads) and mutations (writes) are defined in the GraphQL type language.

2. Refinement types can be implemented with directives or custom scalars.

3. The "built for the networked age" section is very similar to what Apollo Federation gives you - the ability to move implementations of part of your GraphQL API service to different servers with end clients being unaware.

4. Protocol agnositic - technically GraphQL is protocol agnostic but in really nobody cares because everyone uses HTTP or Websockets.
I stopped reading books because of mandatory reading.

When I graduated from high school one of the thoughts on my mind during the ceremony was "YES!! I will n e v e r have to read books again!!"

I also stopped reading around age 9-10 for fun.

My 'favorite' book during school was Crime and Punishment. I didn't like the book, but I knew the teachers liked it. So if it ever came up I 'liked it very much'.

Many years after school anime -> manga -> light novels -> web novels got me back into reading. Now I spend far too much time on reading, but I don't think I will ever read fiction in my native language again.
That, doesn't make any sense 4k allows monitors to push past 24 inches, though, on a 24 or less 2k is plenty for me, but the generation of 22 inch 1080p monitors was rough on the eyes.
I think I have a much lazier explanation. Leet code style questions were a good way to test expertise in the past. But the same time everyone starts to follow suit the test becomes ineffective. What's the saying? When everyone is talking about a stock, it's time to sell. Same thing.
Isn't Hacker News reading, but just not novels?
It is a time commitment. We did have four separate exercises and they could be taken individually. So someone could do them a few evenings in a row or all in one day. Whatever worked best for them.
You didn't really miss on much. If you want to relive the experience, try to code something in AppleScript.
Yet another step to end globalisation, and make each country slowly look for alternatives.

This is how Year of Desktop Linux will finally happen, eventually forks will be required to work around export restrictions of the two US OS vendors, running on top of ARM and RISC-V units produced by non-US companies.
My partner worked in Harrods and had people (mostly Americans) all the time asking the shop staff if they spoke English.
In an old warehouse/fabrication job I had back in the late 2000s, I used some TUI based inventory/work order management system on a Windows NT computer isolated from the internet. The singular software it ran was called <something>QIS-II… I think, I’m not clear any more.

It looked like your typical 16 color monospaced DOS TUI and was definitely intuitive to start with, but for the set of things I had to do, it was fast and fluid to use once one developed fluency with it’s layout and controls. I actually kind of miss it.
It's all devs in general. As a java dev I have lost count of the number of times I have to tell any dev not to use a damn regex to validate emails.
protobuf for C++ has this feature - https://protobuf.dev/reference/cpp/arenas/ (not so much parsing but (de)serializing)
I guess the lesson is "don't over deliver" :)

In high school we had to make a list of 12 books we read in the year. I was reading a few a week. My list contained 12 books.

(Side note, we lived some distance from the library in elementary school, but we got through the books -fast- so the librarians gave us extra library cards to reduce visits to like once a week. I also got adult-cards pretty young (like 10) because I'd read all the kids books and was already reading older fare. This was in the days before YA was a genre :)

Of course you had a poor teacher because they obviously desired to teach you something, but forgot to tell you what the lesson was. Other than they were a bad teacher, but i guess you may already have known that.
Random baseless speculation: intel and Qualcomm refused to add back doors as demanded by US government, probably because the companies believed they couldn’t stop China from finding out that they did. US gov said fine, no more sales. You can sell again when you add back doors.
“ My son was assigned "The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton - he didn't mind reading it, but he said he just didn't really relate to any of the characters. Even though it's set just 50 years ago, the culture it describes bares basically no resemblance to modern-day life for a teenager.”

Maybe that’s ok? I read the Outsiders when I was young (25 years ago or so) and although I thought it was a bit weird, it wasn’t bad. My life bears little resemblance to many current contemporary people’s lives the world over, but exploring those differences can be good. I am all for giving the kids a chance to see a different world and get a sense of how things can change.
As I suspected. But there's nothing that stops me from reading that domain name as "bent asker".
I know Huawei is bad but what’s the logic here?

The US kills off Huawei’s access to Google Android and TSMC. Almost completely killing their consumer business.

But then hands them a lifeline: you can buy chips at Qualcomm (but not Mediatek) and Intel (but not AMD). Allowing them to maintain a presence in consumer phones and laptops.

Now 5 years later when they have finally built their own operating system and setup their own fabs - the US kills access to Intel and Qualcomm.

Why?
Replacing flossing with diligent tooth picking is a lot different than not flossing. Most people don’t use a tooth pick or floss. If you don’t do either, you’ll probably show improvement from the act of caring to clean your teeth.
They are Ok-ish.

Previous Granite models were on the level of first llama in my benchmarks.

I’m expecting this version to be roughly comparable to llama 2
I’ll have to play more with it for the other things. I haven’t invested much time in troubleshooting, since it seemed like that’s the way iPads just are now. Hopefully that’s not actually true.

When I looked at the top battery consumers in the past there wasn’t anything that stood out. I think home screen was at the top. It wasn’t one or two apps killing it with background activity.
I absolutely agree with you. There are many take home tasks that are way overblown and expect too much. But I am convinced that you can scope it for say 1-2 hours and I think that's a reasonable time investment for an application.

And yes the interviewer has to review that stuff and ask good questions but nobody said this was easy. But for me it showed better outcomes than the usual live leet code interviews.. (I did them too).
> recommended employing your children starting from the age they are able to do household chores, which offers a double benefit of reducing a parent’s taxable income while building an investment-accruing tax shelter for the 7-year-old

In case anyone was wondering, you cannot reduce your taxable income by paying your child to clean your house (I am a former tax lawyer). Could you pay your teenager to work for your company, and reduce the corporate income? Yes, subject to child labor laws — and you still have to pay payroll and income taxes.

Alternatively, you and your spouse can just straight up give your kid $36,000 per year as a gift (with no deduction, but also no income/payroll tax burden).

Having a 7-year-old on the payroll seems like a great way to get audited.
Non-starter due to fundamental differences in slab between commercial and residential. Not financially feasible to convert
> I would be terrified that after a prolonged downturn you'd be left with nothing.

In the long run we are all dead

> And Social Security in the US pays less the less you work.

Aren't there diminishing returns with Social Security ? so at some cutoff you are NOT getting more regardless of how much more you work
Several. In fact I currently work in such a company. When I left “hierarchical” Microsoft for “flat” Google many years ago, there were 6 layers of management between me and Ballmer, and 7 between me and Schmidt. Back then it didn’t really matter because the company was bottom up and management did not interfere much with what was going on (“controlled chaos”), but now during my more recent stint there there seemed to be a lot more gatekeepers on everything “aligning” with one another without fully understanding wtf is going on. As someone very technical and very senior at the same time that was kind of frightening to watch, like a slo-mo trainwreck when you’re within the blast radius
NoSQL is faster than SQL for access, talking like 10x faster. Which makes sense if you think about what it is.

Very true with maintainability - it's ridiculous to use a NoSQL as your main db eventually because of duplicate data and the very large file storage.

You'd use neither of them with certain math or AI (they use vector dbs optimized for array data) - different tools/jobs.
It doesn't change much in practice. If the event is influenced by a state outside of its past light cone, you (that is observer inside the universe) cannot predict the outcome even theoretically.
I have junior and senior students that struggle with fizzbuzz... But damn, are they not allowed to even do a lazy inefficient `sort(mylist)[-2]` if they forgot about for loops? That's the most efficient in terms of number of characters, right haha

But I still think you can reasonably weed these people out without these whiteboard problems. For exactly the same reasons engineers and scientists can. And let's be honest, for the most part, your resume should really be GitHub. I know so much more about a person by walking through their GitHub than by their resume.
At one point I came to the realization that "reading is supposed to be fun". But it wasn't for me during school. At all. I hated every minute of it.

It made me wonder if children in the future will be forced to watch movies and play video games in their "literary education" and whether they will hate watching movies and playing games because of that.
At least people would use it.
If you have complex medical issues, you may not find much better results from doctors. It actually may be even more infuriating to be told you medical issues are just in your head.
I wouldn't bank on that being true forever after 2012. A corporation is goal are vastly determined by the corporate structure.
A lot of websites (like online shopping ) won't let you scrape for long unless you are logged in. Some (like real estate sites) won't tolerate you for long even if you are logged in. Some (like newspapers) won't accept a simple request, they will try to detect browser and user behavior. Some will even detect data center ip blocks to get rid of you.

I don't believe scraping is such a solved problem that you can slap AI and some cute vector spiders on it and claim that everything works.
I'm developing on Windows for Windows, Linux, Android, and web, including C, Go, Java, TSQL and MSSQL management. I do not necessarily need WSL except for C. SSH is built directly into the Windows terminal and is fully scriptable in PS.

WSL is also nice for Bash scripting, but it's not necessary.

It is a check box in the "Add Features" panel. There is nothing to install or setup. Certainly not for linting, unless, again, you're using a Linux tool chain.

But if you are, just check the box. No setup beyond VS Code, bashrc, vimrc, and your tool chain. Same as you would do on Mac.

If anything, all the Mac specific quirks make setting up the Linux tool chains much harder. At least on WSL the entire directory structure matches Linux out of the box. The tool chains just work.

While some of the documentation is in its infancy, the workflow and versatility of cross platform development on Windows, I think, is unmatched.
I’ve been doing art on a pro level for twenty five years and I dislike multiple monitors.
Why not ECC CPUs and GPUs? They can be hit by cosmic rays too.
I don't see the benefit. I don't wanna say what I built 2markdown.com with (converts websites to markdown for LLMs), but it has a pretty decent performance without any high cost (and also sometimes erroneous) LLMs thrown on top of the scraping.
Not having ECC is the biggest scam in computing. Ever hear of "bitrot"? That's memory errors that have been saved to disk. We have made millions of people lose their data so that servers can be artificially more expensive.

Intel was responsible for most of this. It is hard to be sad when seeing how they've lost the market lead.
>but due to geography they managed to survive two crucial years and, at Kursk in 1943, they showed how a well designed defense could stop cold even the best German tanks.

At Kursk as your first example? I agree that the battle of Kursk showed the Germans how their best tanks could be crushed, but it's not a good example of your point as I understand it.

Firstly because the main reason for victory wasn't so much the ability to destroy German tanks. The Soviets already had this well before July of 1943. Instead victory was because they knew German attack planning in advance and were able to prepare an incredibly robust defense in depth against them while also concealing a superbly equipped counterattack.

Secondly, Kursk isn't the best example because the Battle of Stalingrad much earlier showed how it was possible to stop and then destroy a powerful, well equipped German Army with a tenacious defense and then even mount a ferocious counter offensive (operation Uranus).

Part of the success of Stalingrad for the Soviets was also due to a major earlier blunder of confidence by Hitler, who thought the 6th army alone was enough to take Stalingrad and ordered its accompanying 4th army to separate away from 6th and continue south to join the rest of the previously already split Army Group South (in an even earlier Hitler order that further weakened the later attack on Stalingrad) for an attack on the Caucasus
I wish there was a hard requirement for ECC, as a developer working on GPU drivers, there's a huge amount of reported issues that just... don't make sense? One offs with slightly different symptoms, memory dumps of nonsense, just nowhere to start rooting out the cause for an issue. Even on "widely reported" issues that make it to reddit and similar.

Probably not surprising, there's a naturally antagonistic relationship between Performance and Reliability here, and it's clear which way many of those "enthusiast" forums lean.

I haven't got actual numbers, but I feel that most [0] of the issues I start looking at just can never be reproduced, or even make sense from the backtrace or similar. I can't say it's 100% hardware issues for this, as many games are a little... loose... with reliability if it works "well enough", and is heavily interacting with code and data we work on so might also be a source for "impossible" issues. But even on straightforward code paths, no weird OS interaction, no allocation, nothing async etc. "Impossible" states happen pretty regularly.

I would love there to be enough ECC-using gamers out there to statistically see if it makes a difference.

[0] Most in terms of number of different issues, not total reports of the same issue. That's dominated by one or two things, normally around the latest game or update doing something dumb :P
Most software engineering just doesn’t require calculus, though it does benefit from having the understanding of functions and limit behaviors that higher math does. But if you look at a lot of meme dev jobs they’ve transitioned heavily away from the crypto craze of the past 5 years towards “prompt engineering” or the like to exploit LLMs in the same way that the “Uber for X” meme of 2012-2017 exploited surface level knowledge of JS or API integration work. Fundamentally, the tech ecosystem desires low skill employees, LLMs are a new frontier in doing a lot with a little in terms of deep technical knowledge.
yeah, my book is on torrents and on illegal file / book sharing sites. once I even saw a translated arabic version. still selling a few editions per month, not too bad for a 6 year old SEO book.
U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
No, that’s a Corolla or a Kia Forte of laptops.
You're on a technology message board, there are going to be opinions - you might be the sensitive one.

If you think HN is bad try the others!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40278915
> Doesn’t this swing both ways? Surely banning books is seen as a fairly extreme and intended to impose your views on someone else. What other interpretation is there?

No. I was only responding to the false hyperbole that teachers can't keep books in their classrooms anymore.

Also, the whole controversy around "banning books" is stupid and full of dumb propaganda. That extends to the term "book ban" itself, which is a bit of manipulative, misleading spin that rivals "death tax." If anyone was really against "book bans," they should demonstrate their commitment by fighting for a Hustler subscription and some "gender critical" books for every classroom. It's really a fight about who gets to do the banning.
File search is possible with the "/" key, but what you're referring to is searching within notes, right? For cross-device capability, currently, it's possible using shared folders.
If there's a significant number of stars, considering adding these features might be worthwhile!
> Since there is an upper limit to money’s effect on joy — studies have shown that global happiness tops out at income levels of about $75,000 a year — chasing infinite wealth may be psychologically futile.

A few years ago I saw that this figure was admitted to be an understatement for folks who live in coastal cities. This was also before COVID-era inflation hit. I'd think in the SF area, the number would be closer to triple this, or possibly higher.
The AI Research Assistant
Another problem with on-die ECC is the lack of reporting.

You have no idea if you have tons of errors and how many were corrected.
I bet that touch-optimized macOS will never see the light of day, or if it does it will be insanely crippled. Too much of an existential threat to Apple’s stock price.

Apple is in the midst of a cold war with regulators now. Every new feature will be scrutinized to check that it offers no threat to their golden goose if regulators force them to open it up. Allowing one type of VM means that regulators could force them to allow any type of VM.
Venture Firms Double, Then Halve, in Reversal
> We watch A24's Civil War the same way that Vaughan and Ballard would watch a car crash.

Civil War was a very interesting movie. The three main characters are all photographers, and the movie turns them into both the observer and the observed. This creates a distancing effect when we are confronted with the violence of war. But the movie also challenges the way we interact with war movies as a genre (many critics picked up on the Full Metal Jacket call-outs, they were so obvious).

I'm just saying, a lot to unpack in that movie.